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Flood Warning from AA Road watch

Sponge Bob · 2009-11-19 16:15:24

their site keeps crashing and this update is from 3:58pm CORK CITY* • Water is being released from Inniscarra Dam and this will severely affect the city centre, conditions expected to worsen approaching high tide 6:30pm. he N22/Lee Rd, the Ballea Rd, Straight Rd, Inniscarra Rd and Carrigrohane Rd are all closed due to…

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#242 20-11-2009 8:24pm
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poconnor16 wrote: »

Believe it or not, some of the pubs and clubs are going to try and open tonight.....:)

Any idea which ones(specifically clubs!), I'm er "curious"

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#243 20-11-2009 8:56pm
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Dare_2_defy wrote: »

Lucky you, eh:D:D

North Main St will prob be closed for the day,

The mardyke:

ha, I was supposed to have rugby there 2day! And the pitch is lower than the dressing rooms, so it was way deeper on the pitch .

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#244 20-11-2009 9:00pm
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Webmonkey wrote: »

I'm back in Kerry. Its 7pm the tide started coming in yeah? - things could get worse.

Its due to get worse - high tide is around 7 and following that, the ESB will be doing a controlled release of water from the Iniscarra Dam as the tide is going out. So even though the tide is going out, there will still be a substancial anount of water

Rain is forecast for 2nite, 23mm I heard - high tide is between 7-9 am 2moro.

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#245 20-11-2009 9:04pm
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rebel_girl_15 wrote:

Its due to get worse - high tide is around 7 and following that, the ESB will be doing a controlled release of water from the Iniscarra Dam as the tide is going out. So even though the tide is going out, there will still be a substancial anount of water

Rain is forecast for 2nite, 23mm I heard - high tide is between 7-9 am 2moro.

Scary stuff

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#246 20-11-2009 9:07pm
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I would predict anywhere between 20 and 30mm late tonight early tomorrow, with high winds Sunday causing issues on the South Coast. Stay safe people

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#247 20-11-2009 9:08pm
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Wind makes things so much worse.

Actually I was over by where the wall by mercy tumbled over (Including some of the road) and at 3pm nothing had being done to it. Surely they've put up something. It will be very hard to hold the weight of that water.

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#248 20-11-2009 9:10pm
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#249 20-11-2009 9:15pm
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Scien wrote: »

7yrs i spent in the City & i've never seen it come anywhere close to that.

Its the worst floods Cork has experienced in living memory!

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#250 20-11-2009 9:18pm
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Scien wrote: »

Some pics here.
No.71 is ridic..

7yrs i spent in the City & i've never seen it come anywhere close to that.

Scien , Tnx for the link , excellent pictures !

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#251 20-11-2009 9:19pm
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Scien wrote: »

Some pics here.
No.71 is ridic..

7yrs i spent in the City & i've never seen it come anywhere close to that.

77 as well. Wouldn't want to be in there

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#252 20-11-2009 9:32pm
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Webmonkey wrote: »

77 as well. Wouldn't want to be in there

Have a look here Webmonkey

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055743825&page=2

Just been told it was full of cars !!

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#253 20-11-2009 9:36pm
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Stargate wrote: »

Have a look here Webmonkey

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055743825&page=2

Just been told it was full of cars !!

Jesus *****. That's insane. So many new cars down there

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#254 20-11-2009 9:39pm
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Nutz isnt it !

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#255 20-11-2009 9:41pm
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Indeed!

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#256 20-11-2009 9:45pm
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Problems are being caused by the volume of water passing through the ESB's Inniscarra dam. The ESB says it has to release significant amounts of water downstream of the dam because the dam is dealing with up to eight times the amount of water that it normally handles.

It says flooding downstream of the Inniscarra dam is inevitable under the circumstances.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1120/weather.html

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#257 20-11-2009 9:56pm
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ScrubsfanChris wrote: »

Lets hope there isn't a repeat of 2004.

Looks worse to me. Glad I'm not there. I fear there's more to come.

ps dry here on the east coast

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#258 20-11-2009 10:11pm
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eoccork wrote: »

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1120/weather.html

Just saw it on the news there - 307 square miles of a catchment area above the dam, have to release the water. Seeing that on the news was unreal - will be up on the rte player soon for anyone who missed it

Boil notices are in operation around the Clondroichead area. For the whole county, if anyone is concerned about their water, boil it or buy bottled water and contact the local authorities

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#259 20-11-2009 10:13pm
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Webmonkey wrote: »

Jesus *****. That's insane. So many new cars down there

Yeah, heard from someone in the county hall that they were loading cars off a transport into the kingsley yesterday morning. No idea how many but horrible all the same.

There's gonna be millions in car write off's alone judging by all the pic's and whatnot!

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#260 20-11-2009 10:21pm
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Unconfirmed but apparently the ESB were holding off during the week on releasing any water due to the search for the missing student. It was the right thing to do at the time.

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#261 20-11-2009 10:32pm
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Hey guys,
Just wondering if anyone knows how bad the Wilton area is effected as regards the floods, or is it effected?
Thanks

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#262 20-11-2009 10:38pm
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legal eagle 1 wrote: »

Hey guys,
Just wondering if anyone knows how bad the Wilton area is effected as regards the floods, or is it effected?
Thanks

Well, the sarfield's road roundabout was flooded yesterday (got caught out badly there walking home yesterday) as was the road by the traffic lights outside of witlon. But all seems fine now, the water has subsided and the roads are clear.

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#263 20-11-2009 10:41pm
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Well, the sarfield's road roundabout was flooded yesterday (got caught out badly there walking home yesterday) as was the road by the traffic lights outside of witlon. But all seems fine now, the water has subsided and the roads are clear.

Thanks for the info, i was just worried my place would be under water when i got back to it :rolleyes:

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#264 20-11-2009 10:44pm
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rebel.ranter wrote: »

Unconfirmed but apparently the ESB were holding off during the week on releasing any water due to the search for the missing student. It was the right thing to do at the time.

It was the right thing to do IMO - his phone was found down by the Marina. Just thinking about that 2day, floods could make it near impossible. Heard it from another source just there as well

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#265 20-11-2009 10:45pm
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legal eagle 1 wrote: »

Thanks for the info, i was just worried my place would be under water when i got back to it :rolleyes:

Haven't heard of any stories of houses being flooded around this area, being on a hill and all, just seems to be the roads that were effected. Your haouse should be fine.

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#266 20-11-2009 10:49pm
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rebel girl 15 wrote: »

It was the right thing to do IMO - his phone was found down by the Marina. Just thinking about that 2day, floods could make it near impossible. Heard it from another source just there as well

Yeah that was mentioned on the news too and newstalk. He well gone now anyways if it was in there he went - Feel awful for the family.

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#267 20-11-2009 10:56pm
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Webmonkey wrote: »

Yeah that was mentioned on the news too and newstalk. He well gone now anyways if it was in there he went - Feel awful for the family.

I heard that there was a second man that went missing after the Ireland game as well. Must be very hard for the family and his friends

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#268 20-11-2009 10:57pm
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rebel girl 15 wrote: »

I heard that there was a second man that went missing after the Ireland game as well. Must be very hard for the family and his friends

Where you hear that? - thats dreadful

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#269 20-11-2009 11:15pm
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Webmonkey wrote: »

Where you hear that? - thats dreadful

Yeah there's a sticky on the PRoC about it. On corkcity.ie or something aswell. Really awful.

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#270 20-11-2009 11:21pm
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AddictedToYou wrote: »

Yeah there's a sticky on the PRoC about it. On corkcity.ie or something aswell. Really awful.

Nothing but bad news constantly lately.

How is the city looking now? Did the tides this evening cause any problems.

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#271 20-11-2009 11:25pm
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City was grand, river looked scarily high near City Hall though. We got a call that stores might have to close early due to the high tides, but a semmingly false alarm in the end.

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